Once again Michael Spratt once again hit’s the nail on the head.
“Criminal cases begin in the legal equivalent of an airport holding lounge. A bureaucratic purgatory where accused people, lawyers, prosecutors, and judges all wait for the justice system to slowly boot.
Remand court is where a case lives before a plea or trial date is set. It is the intake period of the criminal justice system. Disclosure gets provided. Crown and defence discuss possible resolutions. Judicial pre-trials are conducted. Trial dates are negotiated through a bureaucratic maze of forms and appearances that makes the old Consumers Distributing catalogue system look sleek and innovative.
And while all this happens, the accused (or their lawyer) keeps returning to remand court, over and over and over again, for updates about why nothing has happened yet. “
Here is the full article which is worth the read.
